From
Richard J McKIM
®
. . . . . . .Date: Tue, 18 Nov
2003 10:43:32 EST
Subject: Re: CMO Notice #06
Dear
Observers
I
would like to emphasise the words of the CMO in Notice No. 6
that the apparition is not yet over, and that the BAA Mars Section still
welcomes observations. We are now receiving just a few image sets for each
night and this no longer covers the whole surface of Mars. Visual observations
of the gibbous phase in the past also yielded valuable data about terminator
projections and yellow cloud heights. (See my BAA book* on the subject of
historical and contemporary Martian Dust Storms!)
The seasonally latest planet-encircling dust storm ever recorded
was that which began on 1924 December 9th in
I
hope that everyone will carry on until at least the epoch of the 1924 event, if
not later, and continue to share their results.
All
good wishes
*
R McKim: Telescopic Martian Dust Storms: A Narrative and
Catalogue, Memoirs of the BAA Vol 44 (June 1999)
Richard McKIM (
Director,
the BAA Mars Section
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